"It's a normal baby; it's a beautiful baby. She's a very well-loved and protected baby. She's with normal people. That's why I don't understand the craziness." - Leah Remini, about Suri Cruise
Leah has made a pronoun error. She has used the third person pronoun "it" to refer to a person whose sex is not unknown.
The third person pronoun "it" is used to refer to an inanimate or non-human object, an action, a concept, a group of people, or a person whose sex is unknown or irrelevant. Leah knows Suri's sex; in fact, she referred to Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' child as "she" in subsequent sentences. Since the baby's sex is known, a first person feminine pronoun should be used to refer to her.
This revision of Leah's statement corrects the pronoun error:
"She's a normal baby; she's a beautiful baby."
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